IT Security/Access Control/Account Management
This lesson covers account management.
Objectives and Skills
editObjectives and skills for the account management portion of Security+ certification include:[1]
- Install and configure security controls when performing account management, based on best practices.
- Mitigate issues associated with users with multiple account/roles and/or shared accounts
- Account policy enforcement
- Credential management
- Group policy
- Password complexity
- Expiration
- Recovery
- Disablement
- Lockout
- Password history
- Password reuse
- Password length
- Generic account prohibition
- Group based privileges
- User assigned privileges
- User access reviews
- Continuous monitoring
Readings
editMultimedia
edit- YouTube: Roles and Account Credentials - CompTIA Security+ SY0-401: 5.3
- YouTube: Group Policy - CompTIA Security+ SY0-401: 5.3
- YouTube: Managing Password Policies - CompTIA Security+ SY0-401: 5.3
- YouTube: Privileges - CompTIA Security+ SY0-401: 5.3
- YouTube: User Access Reviews and Monitoring - CompTIA Security+ SY0-401: 5.3